Chapter 42: Expensive Enchanted Armor
Why is the Elt's enchanted equipment so expensive?
The answer is simple, because the material is expensive. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Alt magic is not a convenient ability that can be used empty-handed like Wettin magic, it can strengthen the user's physical fitness to a certain extent, but this enhancement does not give the user much advantage. No matter what kind of body you strengthen into, if the opponent shoots an arrow on your body, you will still be injured.
Lighting Mages can protect themselves with a magic shield, shoot enemies with handy ranged skills, and use magic lighting, fire, wind induction, heating and cooling, and more. If Alt magic were simply to strengthen the user's physical fitness, it would not be on a par with Rytin's magic.
Ayr magic not only strengthens the user's abilities, but can also be used to enhance items. It is also a pair of leather armor, ordinary leather armor can be easily pierced by a bow and arrow, and leather armor strengthened by the Enchantment of the Elt Wizard can block the arrows shot by the strong bow. Elt magic not only strengthens items, but also adds magical effects to them.
In general, a person wearing heavy armor is susceptible to internal injuries when attacked with a blunt object. This is not the case with specially enchanted heavy armor, which is immune to shocks, and external attacks will only cause the armor user to feel "oh, some kind of attack at such and such a location", but the user will not feel any shocks.
A set of full-body plate armor of the Elts is also forty kilograms at the lightest, and ordinary people can't even do normal actions when they wear it, and this kind of problem will not occur if they have been specially enchanted full-body plate armor. As long as you're not frail, you won't feel heavy when you put on the enchanted full-body plate armor. Of course, you don't feel the weight of the armor without anything. But you can move like a professionally trained heavy infantry, and you won't get tired after a few steps.
The actual weight of the full-body plate armor was not reduced, and the total weight of the armor of the Elt Guards cavalry was more than fifty kilograms, so they had to use the best horses, otherwise the horses would not be able to withstand the weight of men and armor. But you don't feel heavy in the armor, and that's where Elt's magic comes in.
Unlike Leting magic, which requires no additional cost in addition to hard work, the enchantment ability of Alt magic requires materials. Elt Mages need some special ores to perform enchantment work, which is the root cause of the high cost of Elt enchantment equipment.
Not only is the Elt enchanted equipment expensive, but the maintenance costs are also frighteningly expensive. If the magic circuit on the enchanted equipment is damaged, it will cost a lot of money to repair it. For example, if the equipment is pierced by a musket bullet and the location of the bullet hole happens to destroy the magic circuit, then just to repair the circuit damaged by a bullet hole, it will cost at least 5 Tairong money.
Therefore, in general, once the enchanted equipment is significantly damaged, the equipment will be discarded. Because the magic circuit is a very delicate thing, if it is damaged a little, the enchantment of the entire equipment will fail. When the cost of repairing enchanted equipment is greater than the cost of the equipment, it is better to build a new one, and the Elts will naturally discard it directly.
If the enchanted equipment is discarded, the enchanted materials can be recycled, and the cost of the enchanted equipment may be lower. However, the reality is that materials that have been used once cannot be used a second time. Therefore, every time an enchanted piece of equipment is damaged, the Alt nobles will feel distressed once, and it is all money!
If you can only exchange money for equipment, the Elt nobles will not be so distressed. The effectiveness of the enchantment depends on the enchanter's ability, and the stronger the enchanter's ability, the better the enchantment. Materials are expensive, but as long as you have money, you can get them, and a good enchanter is not so easy to find.
The enchanted armor used by the Elt Guards is custom-made, and the cost of the materials required to manufacture it alone is at least 300 tairong. However, if you give these materials to an ordinary enchanter, he will be able to create you with a maximum of a standard enchanted heavy cavalry armor, which is far less protective than the special enchanted armor used by the Elt Guards.
The enchanted armor used by the Elt Guards was made by the best enchanters in the country summoned by the royal family. If it is a solo job, each set of enchanted armor will take at least three and a half years to complete. Ayrt magic is different from Wettin magic in that instead of everyone using one set of rules, they use uniform rules. Generally speaking, if the royal family wants to create a new Guardian Cavalry enchanted armor, they will select 10 of the best enchanters from within the country and let them work together, and only make a maximum of two armor sets at a time.
To date, there has been no record of the enchanted armor of the Elt Guards being broken. None of the casualties of the Ert Guards were due to broken armor, they were either burned, flooded, or buried in sand, and the most unfortunate were those who were shot by the projectiles of the muskets on the observation holes in their helmets, which were only about a centimeter in diameter, and the shots of the muskets could only be said to be unlucky.
The number of Erte's personal cavalry was only more than 300, and in the siege battle, these heavy cavalry did not play much role, and they were also vulnerable to the plots of the defenders, which only increased casualties. Therefore, in the battle against the Mingji people, the Elt Kingdom will only use the Elt personal guard cavalry in field battles, and will not send them to attack the city.
However, in this war, the Mingji people belonged to the side that was besieged. As long as their brains are not burned out because they are too idle like the people of Chaoxin, they will definitely not take the initiative to fight a field battle with the Erte Army.
What kind of virtue is it for the Mingji people to defend the city, the Ert people know it very well. Among the major races in the New World, the Elts were already at the bottom of the population. There are several Mingji countries to be solved this time, and the number of enemies is at least fifteen million, and even if three million children who cannot participate in the war are thrown away, there are still 12 million people who will resist desperately.
In addition to the Elts, there will also be nations of other races attacking these Mingji people. But the Elts can't sit on the sidelines, because this is not just a war to solve the hidden dangers of the kingdom, but also a war to grab the plate. Whoever starts faster will get more land. How to capture the settlement of the Mingji people as soon as possible without paying losses is a seemingly thorny problem, but in fact it is not difficult to solve.
The Elts can use enchanted armor on a large scale, but the economic losses of the Elt Kingdom will be considerable. If the Elts don't use the troops using enchanted armor on a large scale, they will have to use regular troops to pile up, so the loss of the population will be considerable.
The Elts don't want to lose too much money, they don't want to lose too much of their population, they want to get more land. Aside from proper tactics, the replacement of advanced equipment for conventional forces is the only option.
Changing equipment costs money. The regular army has a large base of soldiers, and if the Elt Kingdom spends its own money to replace the equipment, they will still have to spend a lot of money. If someone is willing to provide a batch of advanced equipment to the Elt Kingdom for free, won't the Elt Kingdom spend a lot less money?
In fact, King Elt's purpose of marrying Leah to the Byron family has long since changed. Even if Leah can succeed in uniting the kingdom of Byrons, it will be a long time later. For the current King Ayrt, what he needs is more practical, benefits that can be obtained now. If he could get 5,000 Mingji muskets from Meier, he would have earned 25,000 tairong for nothing, and what if he added ammunition? Isn't the 30,000 Tairong money in hand?
Some people may think that King Elt is too bastard to sell his great-great-granddaughter for 30,000 tairong money. In fact, the account can't be calculated like this, if you give King Ert 30,000 Guan Tairong money, he will definitely not be able to buy 5,000 Mingji muskets. There is no such thing as advanced muskets, except for the producing countries, that can be purchased in large quantities.
A single Mingji musket can be bought for 5 guan tairong money, and 50 can barely be bought for 250 tairong money, but 500 is definitely not what can be bought for 2500 tairong money. If you just shoot 25,000 Guan Tairong directly, people may not sell it to you. Because 500 muskets is not a small number, it is possible to form a musket battalion. Even the musket battalion that uses the Mingji musket can play a great role on the battlefield.
No one can say for sure about political relations, and such a solid alliance as the Kingdom of Byron and the Ilibi League is extremely rare. Many times everyone was still an ally yesterday, but today they tore their faces, and tomorrow they will fight, isn't this how Yijuan's tragic marriage was caused?
If one day, the country that bought muskets from itself becomes its own enemy, will it not be beaten by the muskets it produces? Although there is a gap in the performance of advanced muskets, as long as the number increases, the role they play on the battlefield will not be too bad. At present, there are no more advanced light weapons in the New World, except for the new rifles that can only be captured from the Taeyong goblins. Selling advanced weapons that can be turned into formed equipment units to a potential enemy is something that only a fool can do.
In order to obtain these muskets, King Elt had to invest in a relationship of trust with the Kingdom of Byrons. Of course, he deliberately married his great-great-granddaughter to the Byrons family, instead of marrying the princess who had almost no chance of inheriting the throne, and there was still the idea of uniting the Byrons kingdom in the future.
Both sides know this kind of thing, but they won't break it. Because the unification or not is not absolute, as long as the Byron family sees through the careful thinking of the Elt Kingdom, they can have 10,000 ways to crack it. In fact, Leah was married into the Byrons family, mainly because of her father and grandfather. If it weren't for their encouragement, King Elt would definitely have found a princess to marry. When the time comes, it is not necessarily King Elt's great-granddaughter who marries into the Byron family, but perhaps his granddaughter or daughter. Don't look at King Elt is more than 170 years older than Maier, his youngest daughter is only 8 years old this year, and the youngest granddaughter was just born at the end of last year.
At that time, Maier will become Leah's aunt or uncle, but if Leah is given the choice now, she would rather call Maier's aunt or uncle, even if it is an honorific title later.
It turns out that the Kingdom of Elt thought too generously of the Kingdom of Byrons. Not to mention sending three or five hundred Mingji muskets to recharge, even if it was a Mingji musket that was damaged and repaired, Maier didn't want to give it to them. Maier said that he could send 30,000 tons of military rations to the Elt Kingdom, and as for the armaments, the Byronic Kingdom was very short of them, and he could not do anything about it.
If one soldier consumes 3 kilograms of military rations a day in wartime, 30,000 tons of military rations can feed 100,000 soldiers for 100 days. As a small country with a population of only one hundred thousand, it is interesting enough for the Kingdom of Byron to support so much food in one go.
But the kingdom of Elt is not short of food now, they are short of firearms. Formed musket units are easy to train, and when numbered, they are far more powerful and suppressive than the same number of crossbowmen. The most important thing is that as long as the first Mingji settlement can be defeated with minimal losses, the Elt Kingdom will be able to capture the muskets. In this way, there will be more and more muskets of the Elts, and even if they are broken, they can be replenished on the spot.
The firearms within the kingdom of Elt were scattered among the noble forces, and the royal family could not concentrate on them. At present, the number of firearms in the possession of the royal family does not exceed 300, of which less than 100 are advanced muskets, which is too small. The musket troops on the side of the Mingji people belong to the conventional configuration, and in the siege battle, the Mingji people are condescending and have the advantage of range, and the archers of the Elts will definitely be suppressed by the musketeers on the city wall, thus paying heavy losses.
In a fortified battle, if you want to deal with formed musketeers, you must deploy at least the same size of musketeers, or deploy more than three times as many crossbowmen, otherwise the attacker will definitely be suppressed by firepower. In this case, if the attacker's loss is equal to the defender's, it is already a good performance.
When the Byronic Army and the Bujin Army attacked the settlements of Chaoxin, the attackers had more than three times as many muskets as the defenders. That's why the defenders will be completely suppressed, and even the head of the head feels that they are dying in vain. After completely suppressing the defenders, the attackers dared to sneak up and blow up the walls with powder canister bombs.
Even so, the attacker's best battle loss ratio was less than one to one hundred. This number seems to be a huge disparity, but don't forget that most of the Mingji people's settlements are recalcitrant civilians. They have a fierce and fearless spirit, but they do not have sophisticated weapons and armor, and their military literacy is not high. The most important thing is that the attacker set fire to the city, and the people of Chaoxin were driven by the flames and fled in one direction, and then fell into the encirclement of the attacker and were all wiped out.
Even so, the attackers had to pay hundreds of casualties. These losses were caused during the breaching of the city, the destruction of watermills, and the setting of fires, when the fire broke out, the defenders fell into confusion, and the attackers basically did not suffer battle damage.